Thanks for all the great comments. Its nice to know that some folks are getting some help from this video. When you purchase one of the netbooks or minis that doesn’t include an optical drive, your best bet is to either use an external USB 2.0 optical drive (available from PowerBrixx and others for somewhere around $40 to $50) or network to another computer with a drive and install your software and copy music from there. Hope this helps.
Good video and great advice, but needs some editing to shorten down. We don’t need to see you take out or reinstall every single screw, especially considering we won’t always have the same screw layout. Otherwise the video is very informative and useful. Thanks again!
hi i have a question every time i try to play a game on my laptop or click on the i con it tells me to log in with administrative privileges and try again….. what dose this mean?????????
Not that easy on many – some you have to pull the keyboard bezel then the keyboard and the screw or screws for the optical drive is under the keyboard. Some opticals also have an adapter in the connector, dont forget to swap that over from the old drive as well.
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powerbrixx
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Thanks for all the great comments. Its nice to know that some folks are getting some help from this video. When you purchase one of the netbooks or minis that doesn’t include an optical drive, your best bet is to either use an external USB 2.0 optical drive (available from PowerBrixx and others for somewhere around $40 to $50) or network to another computer with a drive and install your software and copy music from there. Hope this helps.
jew12344
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I have a recent version of a dell inspiron computer that came with no cd/dvd drive. would I be able to install it on to my laptop?
matrixfan10101
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Good video and great advice, but needs some editing to shorten down. We don’t need to see you take out or reinstall every single screw, especially considering we won’t always have the same screw layout. Otherwise the video is very informative and useful. Thanks again!
k166a
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Thanks for this great video!
ShadowmanXL64
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
@SergeantYork71 right click it and go to run as admin (vista user)
Phenomentality
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
@googleline google is your friend, so is youtube…;)
googleline
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
does anyone know how to replace a dvd drive in HP dv600 laptop ? plz answer me or send me a link if anyone knows…
SergeantYork71
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
hi i have a question every time i try to play a game on my laptop or click on the i con it tells me to log in with administrative privileges and try again….. what dose this mean?????????
clifden100
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Well done Darren excellent presentation just what I was looking for
EJus73
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Thank you, that was very clear and very informative-Exactly what I was wanting to know!!
Krazyhorse24
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
thank you, was very clear…….:)
aldeaaga
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
nice video sir.. very clear.. God bless you..
rhblakeman
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
Not that easy on many – some you have to pull the keyboard bezel then the keyboard and the screw or screws for the optical drive is under the keyboard. Some opticals also have an adapter in the connector, dont forget to swap that over from the old drive as well.
johnpatrickbear
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
great simple and clear help
thank you very much
Vezionkiller
November 18th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
nice video, pretty heplful ^__^
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